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Gen Muhoozi says to shoot Bobi Wine personally

By James Kabengwa KAMPALA. Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of President Yoweri Museveni and commander of the nation’s land forces, escalated his violent rhetoric against opposition leader Bobi Wine on Sunday using the derogatory nickname “Kabobi” to lash the National Unity Platform (NUP) president with crude, militaristic threats. In a series of social media tirades, Muhoozi vowed to personally assassinate Wine—a former musician turned democracy icon—while mocking him as a “baboon” and a “drug addict.” The threats, unprecedented in their graphic vulgarity, underscore the regime’s desperation to crush dissent ahead of Uganda’s 2026 elections. Bobi Wine (real name Robert Kyagulanyi), whose NUP party has galvanized youth-led opposition to Museveni’s 39 year rule, has faced relentless state persecution since nearly defeating the president in the violent, fraud-tainted 2021 polls. “If Kabobi even thinks of causing any chaos in Uganda, I will personally […]

admin February 23, 2025

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NUP leader Kyagulanyi explains tough stand on Mpuuga

BY URN The war of words between National Unity Platform (NUP) Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine, and Nyendo-Mukungwe MP Mathias Mpuuga is far from over. A few hours after the former Leader of the Opposition declined to resign over the controversial 500 million Service Award he got from the Parliamentary Commission, the NUP leader, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu hit back insisting that Mpuuga was bribed. “I couldn’t believe that my Deputy President would get involved in a matter of this gravity and not say anything about it- not least, to me,” said Kyagulanyi, adding that, “the moral thing for him to do would be to apologize to the nation and step down from the Parliamentary Commission.” Kyagulanyi went on, ” The LOP like all MPs earns a salary and allowances. However, on top of that, the LOP also earns extra allowances and gets […]

admin March 4, 2024

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Masaka NUP leaders slam party President over Mpuuga’s service award

MASAKA. The National Unity Platform-NUP leaders in Masaka have lashed out at the top leadership of their party over its demand for the resignation of MP Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba from the position of parliamentary Commissioner. The NUP secretariat released a statement on Thursday evening, calling for Mpuuga’s immediate resignation. The party accused him of being culpable of corruption and abuse of office when he accepted a Service Award of 500 million Shillings from the Parliamentary Commission. The statement indicates that acting on public rage, the Party President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu convened a meeting of senior party leaders, who unanimously indicted Mpuuga for corruption and abuse of office in violation of the party’s values of; discipline, reliability, inclusiveness, integrity, patriotism ad service. However,  NUP leaders in Masaka are now demanding a public apology and immediate withdrawal of the statement, which they […]

admin March 3, 2024